Updates on the Programmers Open Letter
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:53 am
Two more programmers have signed the Open Letter, Shay Bushinsky and Volker Böhm.
Various news sites have picked up the story. ChessVibes obviously has pride of place. I haven't checked recently, but I don't know of any English language website that has done more than consolidate it, except maybe lousyatchess.blogspot.com (wow, Tord "needs no introduction"!).
Three German sites have mentioned it with some analysis, Heise the largest German techonology site (the English version h-online.com seems not to have the story), Spiegel Online (associated to Der Spiegel, the largest German newspaper), and the ChessBase.de frontpage [no linked story], the latter of which gives us the nitty-gritty about all the Rybka clones out there, with some mention that Rybka 1.0 Beta is now claimed to be "derived" (their inverted commas) from the code of Fruit -- actually maybe my mentioning ChessBase here is not completely apropos, as they curiously manage to omit any mention of the Open Letter.
Various news sites have picked up the story. ChessVibes obviously has pride of place. I haven't checked recently, but I don't know of any English language website that has done more than consolidate it, except maybe lousyatchess.blogspot.com (wow, Tord "needs no introduction"!).
Three German sites have mentioned it with some analysis, Heise the largest German techonology site (the English version h-online.com seems not to have the story), Spiegel Online (associated to Der Spiegel, the largest German newspaper), and the ChessBase.de frontpage [no linked story], the latter of which gives us the nitty-gritty about all the Rybka clones out there, with some mention that Rybka 1.0 Beta is now claimed to be "derived" (their inverted commas) from the code of Fruit -- actually maybe my mentioning ChessBase here is not completely apropos, as they curiously manage to omit any mention of the Open Letter.